4) Lizard

Author's POV :

Charan sir came into the classroom and announced that this time Smaran will make the quiz for the tenth grade, which all the students were saddened. But he somehow persuaded them, but as soon as he said his second thing, Niyati's senses were blown away by hearing it.

Looking towards her, he said that this time she will tell the quiz pattern to the Smaran tomorrow because tomorrow he is on leave and also told her that she will have to do this work in the morning 15 minutes before the first lecture.

"But Sir, why only me?", Se asked getting a little upset.

"Because I want to, So", He replied expressing his confidence in her.

"Ok sir, As you wish", She replied in a slightly sad voice and Sir started teaching.

"Charan sir could have spoken to anyone else to do this work. Why me? And that too to Smaran sir? Oh God!", She panicked.

"Yarr, I know why you are getting upset but he doesn't know the reason for your problem. They don't know that your and Smaran sir's first impressions of each other were not very good. He told you to do this work because you have the highest knowledge about it as none of us have", Mitali asks her explaining Charan sir.

"I know that is why they have given me this task. I respect him from the heart and I must respect her every decision and fulfill it. Therefore, I will also do this work and also pray to God that it may not happen tomorrow as I have with the encounter with Smaran sir today", She responded by deciding not to do such a thing tomorrow in her mind.

The next day she reaches school 20 minutes early in the morning and moves towards the staff room, placing her bag in the classroom.

"God, please don't let happen something wrong today", Saying this, she reaches the staff room and as soon as she opens the door, she sees only Smaran sitting in front of him, who is looking at some paper.

"May I come in sir?", She says asking for his permission to enter.

"Come in", He replied to her to come inside.

"Sir, Charan sir asked me to tell you the pattern of yesterday's quiz", She said in a slightly slow voice.

"Okay, Come", He replied and gestured her to sit on the chair facing him.

"No, thank you, sir. You tell me what you want to know. I will tell you this standing up", She replied a bit nervous.

"I want to ask you many questions and if you stay here like this till the end, then your legs will start hurting.

So come and sit down", He said in a little strict tone and she sat quietly in the chair facing him.

"So now tell me your name first?", He asked.

"Niyati", She answered in just one word because today she didn't want to create any trouble for herself by speaking more than anything.

"Oh yes, Maybe I also asked you your name yesterday. Am I right?", He asked with confidence.

"Yes Sir", She replied respectfully.

"And after asking the name, the question you asked me was not answered by me at all. Don't you remember this?", She asked in her mind, looking at him with angry eyes.

"First of all, tell me how much the mark distribution of each chapter is?", He said, extending a page towards him on which Quiz's syllabus was written.

She grabbed that page and answered his question. He was asking questions on questions and she was answering his questions. When the questions related to the quiz were over, he started asking some more questions.

"By the way are you going to participate in this quiz tomorrow?", He asked while waiting for the answer.

"No sir", She replied thinking something.

"Why?", He asked with a little surprise.

"I might not be able to come to school tomorrow because of some work at home. That's why", She answered.

"What is the important work that you won't attend school tomorrow and won't participate in this competition?", He asked with curiosity.

"Why is he taking so much interest in my personal life, whatever work I have to do, what does he has to do with that?", She thought while making a strange face.

"Sir tomorrow is someone's birthday at my house, that's why", She replied.

"Okay", He responded and she quickly stood up from its place.

"Sir can I go now?", As soon as she asked this, she saw the lizard passing near his feet.

"Aaaaa...Lizard", She screamed and grabbed his arm and pulled him towards him to take him away from the lizard due to which her balance deteriorated. She stumbled and started falling and she closed her eyes in fear. She was sure that she would fall for sure, but she did not fall, but she felt herself in someone's tight grip.

She slowly opened her eyes, but when she saw the person standing in front, she enlarged her eyes as if she had seen some terrible scene. He had saved her from falling and they were silently looking at her face. She started feeling uncomfortable and she quickly broke away from him and stood on her feet.

"Sorry sir, I'm sorry", She responded panicking and started looking down with guilt.

"No problem. There is no need to feel guilty. You have not made any such mistake", He replied in his simple colloquial voice and there was a slight smile on his face.

As soon as he said so, she looked at his smiling face and a little smile came on her face too.

"Thank you, sir, See you soon", blurting this in a hurry, she started going from there.

"What I just saw was a dream or a reality? He did not express any anger at me, instead, he was smiling. Was this a dream or a reality? I also called him See you Soon, but why?", She came to the class asking herself some such question where Mitali started laughing after seeing her come inside.

"Why are you laughing? Am I a joker?", She asked seriously.

"No way", Mitali replied while suppressing her laughter.

"Mitali's baby girl (Mitali ki Bacchi), tell me fast! Why are you laughing ?", She asked angrily.

"First tell me how was your first encounter with the Smaran sir today?", She asked laughing a little, as soon as she heard this, all the scenes that happened today came in front of her eyes, but she could not tell Mitali about it. So she answered," It was okay".

"To what extent it was fine, I saw it", Mitali responded by teasing her and raising her eyebrows in fun.

"What do you mean? What did you see?", She asked, pointing from the corner of her eye,

"What happened today", Mitali replied.

"Tell me straight away what you saw?", She asked in a dominant voice.

"So straight from my two eyes I saw a girl and boy in each other's arms who were lost in each other's eyes in love", Mitali replied by teasing him and she got it.

"See, you do not say much and what you saw and understood was nothing like that and if you told this to anyone, then I won't leave you", She warned her.

"Okay, fine. I won't say this to anyone but on one condition", Mitali replied.

"Ohhh...So you will take a bribe from your friend to listen to her?", She asked.

"Yes, I will ask my friend a question as a bribe to obey her, to which she will have to answer the truth", Showing her tongue, Mitali said,

"Which question? She asked confusedly.

"If you tell me what else has happened between you and Sir, I won't say anything to anyone about it." Niyati got a bit of a shock after hearing Mitali's talk.

"Nothing like this happened between me and him. I was just about to fall and they saved me from falling, that's all", She answered expressing anger in her voice.

"You were about to fall and Sir caught you to save you, this is understandable, but I did not understand the fact that you were holding his arm", She asked, raising her eyebrow in mischief.

"First tell me what you came to do there?",She asked while changing the topic.

"See, don't change the topic, I came there to call you but when you saw both of them romancing like this, I did not feel like disturbing and I came back to class", She replied while laughing.

"Ohh hello...We were not having any romance. Understand nor am I interested in doing so with him. The lizard was just near their feet. So I grabbed his arm and pulled him Because of which my balance deteriorated and I started falling, but he saved me. This is what happened there. You do not make any other story in your favor. Nothing like this happened between me and him", She replied, clearing her doubt.

"If this does not happen, it will happen", Mitali said and looked towards Niyati's face.

"What..what..what...what did you say? How will it happen? Me and he? Have you gone mad? She is a teacher and I am her student", She replied.

"What happened then? Where is it written that a student and a teacher cannot love each other? By the way, he is very handsome and his age does not look much", Mitali asks while making her angrier.

"You do not make me angry and if you find him so much handsome then you go and make sure your relationship", She backfired at her.

"His pair with me will not look good. I do not look as good as him, but you are perfect for him", Mitali said mischievously.

"See, your lot is done. Do not eat my mind and study. Nothing be kept in love and anyway, I can never love such a rude person", Having said this, she got lost in her thoughts.